Mar 25

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Mar 25, 2018 Week: 13\ Day: 84
86004 Today: H 61° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 
Wind ave.:   25mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest Lightning:  1299 miles away
Record High: 72°[1988]   Record Low:[1913]
Mar Averages: 46°\19°
Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)
Today’s Quote

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
   Victor Hugo

Harper’s Index

1 in 20-Estimated chance the world will meet
the temperature change goals of the Paris Agreement

12-Minimum percentage of the Earth’s land that
was experiencing severe drought at any given time last year

Observances This Week
19-25
Act Happy Week
National Animal Poison Prevention Week Link
National Fix A Leak Week  Link
National Introverts Week Link
Wellderly Week

20-4/5
National Cherry Blossom Festival

21-27
Internat’l Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination

23-25
American Crossword Puzzles Week

24-4/1
World Irish Dancing Week1

25-31
Holy Week
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
National Cleaning Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week
National Physicians Week Link

Observances for Today
International Day of Remembrance of The Victims
of Slavery and The Transatlantic
International Day of The Unborn Child 
 Link
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and
Missing Staff Members Link
National Day of Celebration of Greek & American Democracy
National Medal of Honor Day
Old New Year's Day
Palm Sunday (Christian)
Pecan Day
Tolkien Reading Day
Vaffeldagen (Waffle Day
Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1300’s                                          
1306 Robert the Bruce crowned Robert I, King of Scots, having killed his rival John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch

1600’s                                          
1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000


1800’s                                          
1807 First fare-paying, passenger railway service in the world established on the Oystermouth Railway in Swansea, Wales
1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California
1882 1st demonstration of pancake making, held at a department store in NYC
1896 Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece [NS=Apr 6]

1900’s                                          
1919 Woodrow Wilson's dream of a League of Nations becomes a reality after the League Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference
1937 It is revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth$25,000 per year for ads
1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart
1944 RAF Flight Sgt Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet over Germany without a parachute; his fall broken by pine trees and soft snow, he suffers only a sprained leg
1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12½" screen at $1,000)
1955 United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.
1960 DH Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC)
1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
1966 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
1969 Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting, loyalists in Northern Ireland are jailed for organizing an illegal counter demonstration in Armagh on 30 November 1968
1971 Tom Jones' "She's a Lady" goes gold
1971 James Callaghan speaks at a rally of the Northern Ireland labour movement, but rejects calls for the Labour Party to open membership to those living in N. Ireland
1982 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on CBS-TV
1985 57th Academy Awards: "Amadeus", F. Murray Abraham & Sally Field win
1986 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
1991 63rd Academy Awards: "Dances with Wolves", Kathy Bates & Jeremy Irons win
1996 68th Academy Awards: "Braveheart", Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win




My Rambling Thoughts
I was mesmerized this morning. I turned on CNN to see the news and they were covering the March for our Lives in DC. I have never heard such articulate people under 21 in my life. Two highlights were the 11-year-old girl and Emma Gonzalez with her speech followed by silence. Others were also very good. I now fully believe this is not a moment, but a movement.  The Flagstaff March is at 3pm today.  I am hoping the 25mph cease and desist by that time. We all need to listen to their message.

I was also interesting as many were wearing “$1.05” tags. This represented the amount of money the NRA has donated to FL elected officials divided by the number of students in FL. Their message, we are worth more than $1.05.

The NRA is was introduced to and joined as a Boy Scout is NOT the NRA of 2018. I learned gun safety from the NRA, my father, and my grandfather. Today’s NRA is just into selling guns and getting more people to buy guns. Sad.

Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

90’s
@92- Eileen Ford,
American modelling agency executive and
co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency),
born in Manhattan
(d. 2014)

80’s
@89- Arturo Toscanini,
temperamental conductor (NBC)
(d. 1957)
@83- David Lean,
English director (Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter),
born in Croydon, England
(d. 1991)
83- Gloria Steinem,
American feminist and publisher (Ms Magazine),
born in Toledo, Ohio

70’s
78- Anita Bryant,
singer (George Gobel Show) and
anti-homosexuality campaigner
@77- Howard Cosell,
sportscaster (Monday Night Football),
born in Winston-Salem, NC
heart attack (d. 1995)
76- Aretha Franklin,
American singer-songwriter
known as "The Queen of Soul" (Respect) and
first female performer inducted: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
born in Memphis, Tenn
75- Paul Michael Glaser,
American actor (Starsky-Starsky & Hutch),
born in Cambridge, Mass
71- Elton John [Reginald Kenneth Dwight],
English singer (Rocketman),
born in Pinner, Middlesex

60’s
65- Mary Gross,
actress/comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds),
born in Chicago
@64- Béla Bartok,
Hungarian composer and pianist (Concerto for Orchestra),
born in Nagyszentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary
leukemia (d. 1945)
61- Hoyt Axton,
actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters),
born in Duncan, OK  
heart attacks (d. 1999)

50’s
56- Marcia Cross,
American television actress (Melrose Place),
born in Marlborough, Mass
53- Sarah Jessica Parker,
American actress
(Square Pegs, Sex and the City),
born in Nelsonville, Ohio

30’s
36- Danica Patrick,
race car driver

Historical Obits Today

80’s
@85-2013 Anthony Lewis,
American journalist (Pulitzer Prize 195,1963) & author
@83-1914 Frederic Mistral,
French poet (Nobel-1904)
@81-2012 Larry Stevenson [Richard],
American skateboard innovator

70’s
@76-2006 Buck Owens,
American singer and television personality
heart attack

60’s
@69-1992 Nancy Walker,
American actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife),
cancer
@68-1975 Faisal,
King of Saudi Arabia (1964-75),
shot by nephew

50’s
@55-1918 Claude Debussy,
French composer (Iberia/La Mer),
rectal cancer

Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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